Jozef Beck

Jozef Beck (4 October 1894-5 June 1944) was the Foreign Minister of Poland from 2 November 1932 to 30 September 1939 in between August Zaleski's two terms.

Biography
Jozef Beck was born on 4 October 1894 in Warsaw, Poland, and he served in the Polish Legion of Austria-Hungary during World War I. From 1922 to 1923 he served as the military attache to France, but he was disliked so much by the French people that they accused him of being a Soviet spy. In 1926, he helepd Jozef Pilsudski's coup and was appointed Foreign Minister of Poland on 2 November 1932, concluding a 1932 non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and a 1934 non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. In 1939, he negotiated an alliance with the United Kingdom, which led to the start of World War II when Germany invaded Poland. Beck fled to Romania after the Invasion of Poland, and he died in 1944 of tuberculosis.